Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Painter, Printmaker, and Multidisciplinary Artist
Corrales, New Mexico

Photo by Neal Ambrose-Smith.
Tribe and community are fundamentals in Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, MT) art and activism. Smith's worldview is to give back. She calls herself a cultural arts worker and uses humor plus satire to examine stereotypes of American Indian life in contrast to the consumerism of American society. She sees her art as fusion, crossing historical boundaries, mixed medias, and styles. She is internationally known as an artist, curator, lecturer, printmaker, and independent professor. She holds four honorary degrees and two Governor’s Arts Awards from New Mexico and Montana. Smith's work is in collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Missoula Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Walker Art Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA.
Donor -This award was generously supported by The Fred and Eve Simon Charitable Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 12.15.2024

War is Heck by Juane Quick-to-See Smith, 2002. Lithograph, dimensions 58 × 56 inches.
Photo by Neal Ambrose-Smith.

Trade Canoe: For the North Pole by Juane Quick-to-See Smith, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, dimensions 60 × 160 inches.
Photo by Neal Ambrose-Smith.

Trade Canoe with Bison by Juane Quick-to-See Smith, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, dimensions 60 × 160 inches.
Photo by Neal Ambrose-Smith.

Homeland (Map) by Juane Quick-to-See Smith, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, dimensions 48 × 72 inches.
Photo by Neal Ambrose-Smith.

Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art by Juane Quick-to-See Smith, 1995. Collagraph/etching, dimensions 79 × 54 inches.
Photo by Neal Ambrose-Smith.